[ltp] the fan of ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th starts quite often lately

Luca Fornasari luca.fornasari at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 17:29:19 CEST 2020


Uwe,

Have you considered the idea of changing the thermal paste between the
processor and the fan?
Trust me ... there is no culprit in the OS ... it's the thermal paste.

Luca

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 5:25 PM Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on my Thinkpad X1, but lately I noted that the
> fan starts because the temperature rises.
>
> I run then either ps aux or
> sudo /usr/local/bin/ps_mem
>
> But have difficulties to find the culprit.
>
> Does somebody have an idea, how to track this down.
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Uwe Brauer
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